Uraeginthus ianthinogaster Reichenow, 1879b: 114

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 53

Uraeginthus ianthinogaster Reichenow, 1879b: 114 .

Now: Granatina ianthinogaster (Reichenow, 1879) . See Blake et al. (1968: 335).

Syntype: ZMB 24257 (B 15708, Fischer no. 378), skin, male, collected at “Massa”, 03.11.[1878] .

Syntype: ZMB 24258 (B 15708, Fischer no. 377), skin, female, collected at “Massa”, 03.11.[1878] .

Type locality: “ Massa” [ Masabubu , Tana River County, Kenya], from the original description as well as locality of the syntypes .

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements and descriptions for both sexes ( Figure 1c ), and the locality “Massa” were given. Fischer & Reichenow (1879) listed two (nos. 377, 378) for this species. As these two specimens are the only ones of this species collected by Fischer found in the Berlin and Hamburg collections, and the locality is correct, both are regarded as syntypes.

Figures

FIGURE 1: a: Fischer’s Tower in Hell’s Gate National Park, Naivasha, a 25-m high rocky tower (so-named following Fischer’s departure through the area from the lake to the Mount Suswa side of the Rift Valley in Jun 1883). It was formed by semi-molten rock forced up through a fissure in the earth’s surface, cooling and solidifying as it emerged. According to Masai oral tradition, the tower is a Masai girl who was turned into stone after disobeying the family before her wedding (photo courtesy D.A. Turner). b: Original collector’s label (front/back) of G.A. Fischer for ZMB 49.320 (Fischer no. 6), Halcyon leucocephala hyacinthina, syntype for Halcyon semicaerulea hyacinthina Reichenow, 1900b (photo C. Radke, MfN). c: ZMB 24258 Granatina ianthinogaster syntype for Uraeginthus ianthinogaster Reichenow, 1879b, collected by G.A. Fischer with typical historical label for a scientific skin at the ZMB (photo H.J. Götz, MfN) d: Typical historical label for a scientific skin at the ZMB for ZMB 35597 (Fischer no. 293) Eurystomus glaucurus suahelicus, holotype of Eurystomus afer suahelicus Neumann, 1905; missing a ZMB number (photo C. Radke, MfN). e: Original collector’s label (front) of G.A. Fischer for ZMB 2000.40044 (B 19019, Fischer no. 451), Pogoniulus bilineatus fischeri, holotype of Barbatula Fischeri Reichenow, 1880; notice change of the provisional determination after species description (photo C. Radke, MfN). f: Typical historical label for a scientific skin at the ZMH for ZMH 6911 (Fischer no. 925), Muscicapa adusta murina, syntype for Alseonax murina G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884a (photo C. Bracker).